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Westminster Abbey
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Westminster Abbey
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(Placenames / Named Buildings) a Gothic church in London: site of a Benedictine monastery (1050-65); scene of the coronations of almost all English monarchs since William I
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Noun1.Westminster Abbey - a famous Gothic church of St. Peter in Westminster, London on the site of a former Benedictine monastery; "Westminster Abbey is the scene of the coronations of almost all English monarchs"; "Distinguished English subjects are buried in Westminster Abbey"
City of Westminster, Westminster - a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey


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It was laid in the 1260s, when Henry III sent his new Abbot of Westminster, Richard de Ware, for talks with the Pope in Rome.
 
 
 
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